RVN Operational Quality Adjustment / Operational Penalty

Within the KONET Network, slashing does not refer to any form of economic punishment or financial loss. Instead, it denotes an operational quality adjustment mechanism in which, if the operational quality provided by an RVN as a network infrastructure component is continuously observed to fall below a certain threshold, the role and influence assigned to that RVN within the network are gradually reduced.

For each RVN, the protocol aggregates metrics such as recent processing latency, drop rate, availability, and delivery stability to calculate an operational quality score. Based on this score, the protocol determines the RVN’s Influence Weight within the network. This relationship can be conceptually expressed as follows:

$$W_{rvn} = \min\left(1, \frac{Q_{rvn}}{Q_{target}}\right)$$

Wrvn: The influence weight of the corresponding RVN within the network Qrvn: The operational quality score of the corresponding RVN Qtarget: The target quality threshold required by the network

This influence weight is reflected in the following factors:

• The proportion of transactions routed through the corresponding RVN

• The pipeline capacity that can be processed concurrently

• The priority assigned within the execution pipeline

In other words, slashing refers to a structure in which the network utilization share of an RVN with degraded quality is automatically reduced.